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voii u.3 fe&iil&itc'b.x x c ty^sda^i jyj3vt 36 18*1 agricultural was justly entitled to indeed it is but lately it has been thought worthy to bc ranked among the branches of political economy if the soil as has bcen justly observed by a late able economist be the capital stock of a nation from the produce of which the farmer merchant ancl man ufacturer nre not only supported but en riched â€” if it be the source from which a nation draws the greatest part of its rev enue what exertions should a nation not make to improve its soil ? antl that it is ihis source there can be no doubt even in governments supposed to be manufac tural and commercial as the lale income tax iu great britain has sufficiently pro ved if half the millions which have been spent in establishing manufactures duel extending and protecting commerce had been applied to tbc improving the soil or what woulel amount to thc same tiling had those sums not been drawn from the farmers but remaine with them as accumulating capital for agricultural improvemeni there is no estimating at this day the increased sources of human happiness it is true from the happy or ganization of our government and from the majority ofour legislators being cho sen from the body of farmers we have less to fear from such taxation and injudi cious expenditure â€” but at a time when every interest is under full sail for indi vidual aggrandizement and when the rest less spirit ol commerce and manufactures so far out travels thc slow pace of agri culture it becomes the farmers in every section of the country to form societies for the purpose of protecting their rural and political interests another cause which has retarded ihe progress of agriculture in this section of country is the acquirement of such vast and fertile regions in the south and west since these acquisitions such a spirit of enterprise and aggrandizement has burst forth as knows no bounds forcing thither a tide of emigration which carries with it a large portion of our most industrious and enterprising citizens wiih all their capital â€” and fostering too the desliuctive system of cutting down and wearing out the land rather than improving it under the idea of retiring to a more fertile f.gypt in the west when their fields are exhaust ed in thc east ancl what increases this tide of emigration is the unequal policy of our government in bestowing one six teenth of all these lands to public schools this donation operates as a bounty on em igration wbich is more seriously felt by the agricultural than any other interest i mention it however not in the language of complaint â€” for 1 envy nol our sister states â€” but i mention it as a fact illustra tive of the position that without agricul tural societies the interest of agriculture is dormant what now remains for the farmers of our section of country to do to counteract these predominant advantages of the west is to increase the facilities of education to every class of citizens ; to improve our system of husbandry ; to enrich our soil to improve our roacls and extend our in land navigadon â€” thereby increasing and facilitating all thc comforts and accommo dations of life the co-operative hand of the legislature may be needed in accom plishing some of these objects let the farmers who compose the great body of the people judge for themselves let them teach the politician who wishes popular promotion to seek ii through measures promotive of the great and permanent in terest of the country : let them be taught to bring into activity our many natural and lecal advantages and thus while we in crease the national grandeur of our state and multiply the comforts of private life a check may be given lo that migration which carries from us some of our most valuable citizens to be continued ligence of the justice before whom the i incipient proceedings were had it may | appear on the whole a dearer method of recovering debts than if the county courts had original jurisdiction of all sums over slo it is nevertheless de sirable that where causes of action do accrue the parties should have a speeely cheap and fair trial before a tribunal intelligent systematic and permanent if these be the characteristics of the bt bingham sc white causes of extracts from al the subscription to the wf.rtf.rx c.inoi.imax is three dollars per annum payable half-yearly in advance j no paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the discretion of the editors ; and any subscriber failing to give notice of his wish to discontinue at thc end of a to contuim will become responsible for the papers shall receive a tenth tbums : 1 he icgislauir^^^pitl^^b cos courts being held a'.^lt disgraceful scenes whieharej the consequences of triah^ttj ces would then-iivbe^h the of >;".________! 7i4i^h pride of lower branch of our judiciary the act alluded to may be expedient ; if they are not those who may become mem ber of the next legislature and wish to render that part of our judiciary system which falls within the sphere of of a justice of thc peace more respect able anel permanent will direct their attention to the following : if each justice was compelled by an adequate penalty to keep a fair docket of all matters anel suits in which hc might be officially concerned would it not lessen the difficulty of obtaining fair records ? the want of which often becomes seriously injurious to the rights of individuals ; and w hen those papers were exhibited in other states would they not give testimony in this respect more creditable to north-car olina f perhaps such a regulation woulel also preclude many who are annually knighted merely for their subservience in electioneiing intriguts and who would rendejr the public more essential service if they were retained to aid in keeping up the public high-ways if each creditor was obliged to ap ply in his own proper person or by agent properly authorised other than a constable for his warrant which should be taxed at least one dollar and not be on account for a sum less than the cost would it not lessen litigation and promote industry by shortening the too prevalent system of dealing without prompt payment and turning to more productive labor the attention of a host of constables who at present draw their scanty support from the pockets of the laboring poor ? nothing that has been said is intend ed to reflect on the justices ofthe peace generally ; i know their importance to the well being of society i am also aware that many of them arc intelligent and public spirited citizens who in accepting the appointment have de monstrated a worthy zeal for the pub lic good in short they have evinced a degree of public spirit which the legislature seems to have supposed is not to be found in the higher ranks of life ; else why allure other officers iit.il â€¢ ample salaries advancing the odious and aristocratic doctrine that a salary of such magnitude should ac company thc office as would make it worthy the acceptance of a man of a bilities ; while this humble though im portant and responsible office is left to be filled and supported by public spirit alone ? if it should be said by any more conversant in the finances of the state that the salaries of the circuit and supieme judges do not exceed the economical liberality of a wealthy state i would ask such if the legislature does not then bestow its liberality with a capriciousness which while it pam pers some starves others of its minis ters ? quently that of jm efited the same the reapers song haps not witli^h ills courts beiiij^b if the court house ye verdant hills ye smiling fields thou earth whose breast spontaneous yields inserted nn thc cus 1 iii ims sending in adver of times tin \ they will be continued till accordingly advertisement inserted until it has been payment assumed by some person to man u rich supply ; echo m hose mimic notes prolong the melting strain antl bear along o'er distant glades and raves among the mountain shepherd's artless song not afford must bc a use of a convenient soft swelling to the sky attend thc reapers joyful lays and bear the tribute of tlieir praise the tmm taverns befo^^h pointed by order of the coiirtti^^^^h empt from serious objections these however being less frequent are not so productive of evil and perhaps are more difficult to be obviated vicinity mlers to the editors must be post-paid fenot bc attended to to nature's bounteous king ; whose voice loud sounding from the pole in thunder oft is heard to roll when murmuring along is stole the zephyrs silken wing with bread lhc heart of man to cheer sec bending low the ripen'd car ljn&'ms llwsiuftss the holding of auction sales at tav erns as is frequently thc case in the country is pregnant with mischief suf ficient to justify legislative interposi tion those who have witnessed can best describe them i only know them from description on those occasions the number who go to buy is but small compared to those who attend from other motives the owner ofthe prop erty for sale is seldom backward in circulating the glass freely at his own expense because he is like to receive more than cent per cent profit from the consequent indiscretion of those who become affected with lhe spirit of bidding many are thus led on to buy unnecssarily and dear ; and frequent instances occur where people bid off more than they have means to pay for â€” and thence law-suits trials at tav erns family distress the insolvent act and perhaps poverty and pauperism close the account 1 hese are only the outlines of the picture which those who have seen the original are best qualified to fill up with neglect of domestic concerns â€” horse racing and jockeying â€” profane swearing â€” drunk enness â€” quarrelling and sometimes fighting and a variety of other amuse ments not unusual on such occasions the lamentable consequences of hol ding the polls of our political elections at public houses are too generally known to require particular descrip tion suffice it to say lhat the noise and tumult â€” the heated irritating and useless discusisons which frequently occur and which go to impair the res pectability of the electors and the cre dit of the elective franchise are often er the result of the spirit of liquor than the spirit of patriotism as far as le gislative provisions can obviate the evil it ought to be done the ex pense would be small and the benefit great should each ward in the cities and each town in the country build a house or room for the purpose of elec tions the profit which might accrue from its use on other occasions would in many instances more than pay the interest on its cost it is a little re markable that the sagacity which prompted the interdiction of military parades on the days of election as dan gerous to the freedom of the elective franchise did not foresee and guard against the evils consequent on locat ing the election polls at public houses that lie ___{ liii.tiiirs.i ill jill of salisbury n the store formerly occupied b main-street three doors se iderable time to acquire c of his business in the ubscriber battel's himself o execute every kind of de and on terms that will bow its luxuriant head ! in vain ye swains had been jour care had not he eatis'd the blight to span the promise of the summer fair and bade thc sun the rain the air their gracious influence shed he hade the soft refreshing gale blow gently down thc teeming vale kill others can have blank litwks h to any pattern ou short notice finished as any that can he ptbe north 1 william h young june 8 1821 53 nor hurt the peeping grain ; but when the ear began to rise to him we raised our anxious eyes ; oft from the cisterns of the skies he sent in mercy rich supplies jsvnv iooas opening at his store general antl well selected dry goods hard-wake and medicines direct from new-york and phila h^at prices that will enable him his customers and the h^illtileil to all kinds of country ntexch a nge . early and latter rain and now his hand hath crown'd our toil we joy like those that share the spoil the harvest home to bear ! with shouts the laughing pastures ring with grateful hearts ye reapers sing thc praise of heaven's eternal king through whose paternal care ye bring the produce of thc year jpvwate yinteytaumxeiit takes this method of inform and thc public in general lhiirself the i'ett i katon in the bkcounlt/n ( arulina ; _^>- expense comfortahle and all who may favor custom his sideboard is pro minors of the best quality and his tiling requisite for horses attention to merit a w muml'olid dejohnatt u subscriber continues to carry on ; and will execute all or dc-pali'li.li'r 1 mt\vess of the president of the warren agricultural society gentlemen â€” permit me to congratu late ourselves in thus assembling to pro mote the agriculture of our country were my talents equal totheimportanceof this occasion or could i with the eloquence of a virgil paint thc charms of agricul ture while i brought in review before you the many improvements which have bcen made in this art by our predecessors and cotemporaries great would be your enter tainment but feeling as i sincerely do my incompetency to the performance of such a task i shall be mote humble in my undertaking : i shall only attempt to shew some of thc disadvantages which agricul ture labors under in this section of country and point out some ol the advantages which may result from our association in doing this i must rely on that partiality which placed me in this chair to balance the de ficiency of the performance by the zeal of the undertaking for be assured gen â€¢ tlemen that nothing less than an ardent i.eal to promote the objects of our insti tution could have induced me to address you at no period of our history since our forefathers rescued our sod from its long slumber under indian indolence have a gricultural associations been more needed than at tbe present moment ; whether we regard tbe declining fertility of our soil or the portentous crisis which threatens to make agriculture the victim of cupidity ancl speculation jtv\e tubyic that on the 24th instant ___-., netrro man of a man who fields for the sum of six for which i gave my bond dollars payable six j and from a vs have in good property from trading for not to pav said kan ascertain whether or not the founti jtf c > l___-.1h21 s d luti t55r toy sale av11 known stand in lexington n c the name of the swan tavern half town lots with good sta ail necessary out-houses oomi , well furnished k.i.ji land joining town a high ii i . hard subscriber in lexington if more circumspection were used in the selection of justices of thc peace and a few of them organized to sit as a court quarterly for one or two years with suitable compensation would it not raise the dignity of our pleas and htarter sessions facilitate the trial of numerous cases which now find their way into the superior court and there by lessen the labor of the judges and very properlv their salaries also ? i suspect that any innovation which has the appearance of lessening the number of suits would have the zeal ous opposition of those pettifogging members of the bar who traffic with their profession to make their fortunes but those of more enlarged and liberal modes of thinking who regard the law as a science subservient to the general happiness of mankind will examine and determine on quite different prin ciples i s orlgi'iiol inn the wes-runs cuicu.miv messrs editors : having perused a few numbers of your valuable paper and feeling no disposition to interpose in the controversy between the sage athenian and hardy spartan on the constitutionality of the act of the last general assembly extending the ju risdiction of a justice of the peace to sloo i shall at present only throw to gether such considerations as have been suggested by an article in no 47 sub scribed " a farmer of which you may make what use you please the evils resulting from too much litigation when legal coercion is made too cheap are perhaps as great as those suffered when it is too dear for every day's use the act in question cannot bc objectionable cm account of the lat ter quality if however we take in to consideration the numerous nonsuit in inquiring into the causes why agri culture the real alma mater of all other arts and sciences has in most ages and countries been the dupe of other arts we find the most conspicuous to be the want of those very associations which wc have just formed â€” agricultural societies are thc only organs by which its interest and its influence can be known or felt even in our own country without such associa j tions how inoperative to thc farmer is that great palladium of our rights secured to us in common with every other fellow citizen by our constitution of expressing our wants and our feelings on all import ant national subjects ! while year after year the tables of congress are laden with petitions and memorials from the manu facturer and thc merchant the farmer has remained silent as if uninterested in the great political drama it is from the want of such societies that agriculture has never occupied that high station among ihc arts ancl sciences which from its great influence on the happiness cf mankind it the ijuke of well1nton the following statement in relation to the far-famed battle of waterloo we suppose to be essentially correct it is copied from the american watch man the general facts we always understood to be as stated we are not admirers of that science whose ob ject is which of two contending parties shall m do each other most harm but if laurels and blood stained ones are gained let those wear who win them that this man should shew himself the sycophant of the king and the un manly asperser of the queen excites no surprise he who would labour under the burthen of laurels he never earned would naturally enough be come the pander of a prosecution in tended to gratify a profligate monarch we repeat however by the way that on the question of the queen's 1821 sty hollars itlewara away from the subscriber at charlotte coui-h n carolina a negro of simon dark complexion h and five feet seven or eight inches low when spoken to it is towards the county ' the above reward to isaac wilie con r 25 dollars if secured in b^'.'i-.t t ! 50 the richmond enquirer are i ; the above advertisement six their account to the oflicc of for payment at a late celebration at montreal one of the toasts was â€” " may the sins ofour fathers be visited on our foes a n h writer conceives they might as well have added : " and mother f.ve's faults he pun ished onlv on her latest fion'critu ftv-mks buffered in our county courts which are occasioned by the ignorance or neg kinds commonly in use for sale of the mtzerziis cahousiiasi

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voii u.3 fe&iil&itc'b.x x c ty^sda^i jyj3vt 36 18*1 agricultural was justly entitled to indeed it is but lately it has been thought worthy to bc ranked among the branches of political economy if the soil as has bcen justly observed by a late able economist be the capital stock of a nation from the produce of which the farmer merchant ancl man ufacturer nre not only supported but en riched â€” if it be the source from which a nation draws the greatest part of its rev enue what exertions should a nation not make to improve its soil ? antl that it is ihis source there can be no doubt even in governments supposed to be manufac tural and commercial as the lale income tax iu great britain has sufficiently pro ved if half the millions which have been spent in establishing manufactures duel extending and protecting commerce had been applied to tbc improving the soil or what woulel amount to thc same tiling had those sums not been drawn from the farmers but remaine with them as accumulating capital for agricultural improvemeni there is no estimating at this day the increased sources of human happiness it is true from the happy or ganization of our government and from the majority ofour legislators being cho sen from the body of farmers we have less to fear from such taxation and injudi cious expenditure â€” but at a time when every interest is under full sail for indi vidual aggrandizement and when the rest less spirit ol commerce and manufactures so far out travels thc slow pace of agri culture it becomes the farmers in every section of the country to form societies for the purpose of protecting their rural and political interests another cause which has retarded ihe progress of agriculture in this section of country is the acquirement of such vast and fertile regions in the south and west since these acquisitions such a spirit of enterprise and aggrandizement has burst forth as knows no bounds forcing thither a tide of emigration which carries with it a large portion of our most industrious and enterprising citizens wiih all their capital â€” and fostering too the desliuctive system of cutting down and wearing out the land rather than improving it under the idea of retiring to a more fertile f.gypt in the west when their fields are exhaust ed in thc east ancl what increases this tide of emigration is the unequal policy of our government in bestowing one six teenth of all these lands to public schools this donation operates as a bounty on em igration wbich is more seriously felt by the agricultural than any other interest i mention it however not in the language of complaint â€” for 1 envy nol our sister states â€” but i mention it as a fact illustra tive of the position that without agricul tural societies the interest of agriculture is dormant what now remains for the farmers of our section of country to do to counteract these predominant advantages of the west is to increase the facilities of education to every class of citizens ; to improve our system of husbandry ; to enrich our soil to improve our roacls and extend our in land navigadon â€” thereby increasing and facilitating all thc comforts and accommo dations of life the co-operative hand of the legislature may be needed in accom plishing some of these objects let the farmers who compose the great body of the people judge for themselves let them teach the politician who wishes popular promotion to seek ii through measures promotive of the great and permanent in terest of the country : let them be taught to bring into activity our many natural and lecal advantages and thus while we in crease the national grandeur of our state and multiply the comforts of private life a check may be given lo that migration which carries from us some of our most valuable citizens to be continued ligence of the justice before whom the i incipient proceedings were had it may | appear on the whole a dearer method of recovering debts than if the county courts had original jurisdiction of all sums over slo it is nevertheless de sirable that where causes of action do accrue the parties should have a speeely cheap and fair trial before a tribunal intelligent systematic and permanent if these be the characteristics of the bt bingham sc white causes of extracts from al the subscription to the wf.rtf.rx c.inoi.imax is three dollars per annum payable half-yearly in advance j no paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the discretion of the editors ; and any subscriber failing to give notice of his wish to discontinue at thc end of a to contuim will become responsible for the papers shall receive a tenth tbums : 1 he icgislauir^^^pitl^^b cos courts being held a'.^lt disgraceful scenes whieharej the consequences of triah^ttj ces would then-iivbe^h the of >;".________! 7i4i^h pride of lower branch of our judiciary the act alluded to may be expedient ; if they are not those who may become mem ber of the next legislature and wish to render that part of our judiciary system which falls within the sphere of of a justice of thc peace more respect able anel permanent will direct their attention to the following : if each justice was compelled by an adequate penalty to keep a fair docket of all matters anel suits in which hc might be officially concerned would it not lessen the difficulty of obtaining fair records ? the want of which often becomes seriously injurious to the rights of individuals ; and w hen those papers were exhibited in other states would they not give testimony in this respect more creditable to north-car olina f perhaps such a regulation woulel also preclude many who are annually knighted merely for their subservience in electioneiing intriguts and who would rendejr the public more essential service if they were retained to aid in keeping up the public high-ways if each creditor was obliged to ap ply in his own proper person or by agent properly authorised other than a constable for his warrant which should be taxed at least one dollar and not be on account for a sum less than the cost would it not lessen litigation and promote industry by shortening the too prevalent system of dealing without prompt payment and turning to more productive labor the attention of a host of constables who at present draw their scanty support from the pockets of the laboring poor ? nothing that has been said is intend ed to reflect on the justices ofthe peace generally ; i know their importance to the well being of society i am also aware that many of them arc intelligent and public spirited citizens who in accepting the appointment have de monstrated a worthy zeal for the pub lic good in short they have evinced a degree of public spirit which the legislature seems to have supposed is not to be found in the higher ranks of life ; else why allure other officers iit.il â€¢ ample salaries advancing the odious and aristocratic doctrine that a salary of such magnitude should ac company thc office as would make it worthy the acceptance of a man of a bilities ; while this humble though im portant and responsible office is left to be filled and supported by public spirit alone ? if it should be said by any more conversant in the finances of the state that the salaries of the circuit and supieme judges do not exceed the economical liberality of a wealthy state i would ask such if the legislature does not then bestow its liberality with a capriciousness which while it pam pers some starves others of its minis ters ? quently that of jm efited the same the reapers song haps not witli^h ills courts beiiij^b if the court house ye verdant hills ye smiling fields thou earth whose breast spontaneous yields inserted nn thc cus 1 iii ims sending in adver of times tin \ they will be continued till accordingly advertisement inserted until it has been payment assumed by some person to man u rich supply ; echo m hose mimic notes prolong the melting strain antl bear along o'er distant glades and raves among the mountain shepherd's artless song not afford must bc a use of a convenient soft swelling to the sky attend thc reapers joyful lays and bear the tribute of tlieir praise the tmm taverns befo^^h pointed by order of the coiirtti^^^^h empt from serious objections these however being less frequent are not so productive of evil and perhaps are more difficult to be obviated vicinity mlers to the editors must be post-paid fenot bc attended to to nature's bounteous king ; whose voice loud sounding from the pole in thunder oft is heard to roll when murmuring along is stole the zephyrs silken wing with bread lhc heart of man to cheer sec bending low the ripen'd car ljn&'ms llwsiuftss the holding of auction sales at tav erns as is frequently thc case in the country is pregnant with mischief suf ficient to justify legislative interposi tion those who have witnessed can best describe them i only know them from description on those occasions the number who go to buy is but small compared to those who attend from other motives the owner ofthe prop erty for sale is seldom backward in circulating the glass freely at his own expense because he is like to receive more than cent per cent profit from the consequent indiscretion of those who become affected with lhe spirit of bidding many are thus led on to buy unnecssarily and dear ; and frequent instances occur where people bid off more than they have means to pay for â€” and thence law-suits trials at tav erns family distress the insolvent act and perhaps poverty and pauperism close the account 1 hese are only the outlines of the picture which those who have seen the original are best qualified to fill up with neglect of domestic concerns â€” horse racing and jockeying â€” profane swearing â€” drunk enness â€” quarrelling and sometimes fighting and a variety of other amuse ments not unusual on such occasions the lamentable consequences of hol ding the polls of our political elections at public houses are too generally known to require particular descrip tion suffice it to say lhat the noise and tumult â€” the heated irritating and useless discusisons which frequently occur and which go to impair the res pectability of the electors and the cre dit of the elective franchise are often er the result of the spirit of liquor than the spirit of patriotism as far as le gislative provisions can obviate the evil it ought to be done the ex pense would be small and the benefit great should each ward in the cities and each town in the country build a house or room for the purpose of elec tions the profit which might accrue from its use on other occasions would in many instances more than pay the interest on its cost it is a little re markable that the sagacity which prompted the interdiction of military parades on the days of election as dan gerous to the freedom of the elective franchise did not foresee and guard against the evils consequent on locat ing the election polls at public houses that lie ___{ liii.tiiirs.i ill jill of salisbury n the store formerly occupied b main-street three doors se iderable time to acquire c of his business in the ubscriber battel's himself o execute every kind of de and on terms that will bow its luxuriant head ! in vain ye swains had been jour care had not he eatis'd the blight to span the promise of the summer fair and bade thc sun the rain the air their gracious influence shed he hade the soft refreshing gale blow gently down thc teeming vale kill others can have blank litwks h to any pattern ou short notice finished as any that can he ptbe north 1 william h young june 8 1821 53 nor hurt the peeping grain ; but when the ear began to rise to him we raised our anxious eyes ; oft from the cisterns of the skies he sent in mercy rich supplies jsvnv iooas opening at his store general antl well selected dry goods hard-wake and medicines direct from new-york and phila h^at prices that will enable him his customers and the h^illtileil to all kinds of country ntexch a nge . early and latter rain and now his hand hath crown'd our toil we joy like those that share the spoil the harvest home to bear ! with shouts the laughing pastures ring with grateful hearts ye reapers sing thc praise of heaven's eternal king through whose paternal care ye bring the produce of thc year jpvwate yinteytaumxeiit takes this method of inform and thc public in general lhiirself the i'ett i katon in the bkcounlt/n ( arulina ; _^>- expense comfortahle and all who may favor custom his sideboard is pro minors of the best quality and his tiling requisite for horses attention to merit a w muml'olid dejohnatt u subscriber continues to carry on ; and will execute all or dc-pali'li.li'r 1 mt\vess of the president of the warren agricultural society gentlemen â€” permit me to congratu late ourselves in thus assembling to pro mote the agriculture of our country were my talents equal totheimportanceof this occasion or could i with the eloquence of a virgil paint thc charms of agricul ture while i brought in review before you the many improvements which have bcen made in this art by our predecessors and cotemporaries great would be your enter tainment but feeling as i sincerely do my incompetency to the performance of such a task i shall be mote humble in my undertaking : i shall only attempt to shew some of thc disadvantages which agricul ture labors under in this section of country and point out some ol the advantages which may result from our association in doing this i must rely on that partiality which placed me in this chair to balance the de ficiency of the performance by the zeal of the undertaking for be assured gen â€¢ tlemen that nothing less than an ardent i.eal to promote the objects of our insti tution could have induced me to address you at no period of our history since our forefathers rescued our sod from its long slumber under indian indolence have a gricultural associations been more needed than at tbe present moment ; whether we regard tbe declining fertility of our soil or the portentous crisis which threatens to make agriculture the victim of cupidity ancl speculation jtv\e tubyic that on the 24th instant ___-., netrro man of a man who fields for the sum of six for which i gave my bond dollars payable six j and from a vs have in good property from trading for not to pav said kan ascertain whether or not the founti jtf c > l___-.1h21 s d luti t55r toy sale av11 known stand in lexington n c the name of the swan tavern half town lots with good sta ail necessary out-houses oomi , well furnished k.i.ji land joining town a high ii i . hard subscriber in lexington if more circumspection were used in the selection of justices of thc peace and a few of them organized to sit as a court quarterly for one or two years with suitable compensation would it not raise the dignity of our pleas and htarter sessions facilitate the trial of numerous cases which now find their way into the superior court and there by lessen the labor of the judges and very properlv their salaries also ? i suspect that any innovation which has the appearance of lessening the number of suits would have the zeal ous opposition of those pettifogging members of the bar who traffic with their profession to make their fortunes but those of more enlarged and liberal modes of thinking who regard the law as a science subservient to the general happiness of mankind will examine and determine on quite different prin ciples i s orlgi'iiol inn the wes-runs cuicu.miv messrs editors : having perused a few numbers of your valuable paper and feeling no disposition to interpose in the controversy between the sage athenian and hardy spartan on the constitutionality of the act of the last general assembly extending the ju risdiction of a justice of the peace to sloo i shall at present only throw to gether such considerations as have been suggested by an article in no 47 sub scribed " a farmer of which you may make what use you please the evils resulting from too much litigation when legal coercion is made too cheap are perhaps as great as those suffered when it is too dear for every day's use the act in question cannot bc objectionable cm account of the lat ter quality if however we take in to consideration the numerous nonsuit in inquiring into the causes why agri culture the real alma mater of all other arts and sciences has in most ages and countries been the dupe of other arts we find the most conspicuous to be the want of those very associations which wc have just formed â€” agricultural societies are thc only organs by which its interest and its influence can be known or felt even in our own country without such associa j tions how inoperative to thc farmer is that great palladium of our rights secured to us in common with every other fellow citizen by our constitution of expressing our wants and our feelings on all import ant national subjects ! while year after year the tables of congress are laden with petitions and memorials from the manu facturer and thc merchant the farmer has remained silent as if uninterested in the great political drama it is from the want of such societies that agriculture has never occupied that high station among ihc arts ancl sciences which from its great influence on the happiness cf mankind it the ijuke of well1nton the following statement in relation to the far-famed battle of waterloo we suppose to be essentially correct it is copied from the american watch man the general facts we always understood to be as stated we are not admirers of that science whose ob ject is which of two contending parties shall m do each other most harm but if laurels and blood stained ones are gained let those wear who win them that this man should shew himself the sycophant of the king and the un manly asperser of the queen excites no surprise he who would labour under the burthen of laurels he never earned would naturally enough be come the pander of a prosecution in tended to gratify a profligate monarch we repeat however by the way that on the question of the queen's 1821 sty hollars itlewara away from the subscriber at charlotte coui-h n carolina a negro of simon dark complexion h and five feet seven or eight inches low when spoken to it is towards the county ' the above reward to isaac wilie con r 25 dollars if secured in b^'.'i-.t t ! 50 the richmond enquirer are i ; the above advertisement six their account to the oflicc of for payment at a late celebration at montreal one of the toasts was â€” " may the sins ofour fathers be visited on our foes a n h writer conceives they might as well have added : " and mother f.ve's faults he pun ished onlv on her latest fion'critu ftv-mks buffered in our county courts which are occasioned by the ignorance or neg kinds commonly in use for sale of the mtzerziis cahousiiasi